Day: March 5, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight.FX and Silverlight Store Sample App (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 2.0 Walkthrough – Creating a “Traffic Jam” game and Silverlight Game – Part 1 – Creating the main layout and Part 2 – Creating a Car UserControl and Part 3 – Using Linq to XML to read and generate the levels and Part 4 – Adding drag and drop functionality to move the cars around and Part 5 – Storing Highscores in Isolated Storage (Tess Ferrandez)
• The Power of ICommand (Rudi Grobler)
• Silverlight – Databinding ListBox (Dave M. Bush)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: Validity, Consistency and Immutability (Casey Charlton)
• Back to Basics: Interfaces (Karl Seguin)
• Coding: Good Citizens (Mark Needham)
• Is Excessive Mapping Of DTOs/ViewObjects to Entities A Code Smell (Michael Nichols)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• January 2009 "Oslo" SDK Refresh (Chris Sells)
• What Should I Talk About In A Presentation About NHibernate? (Davy Brion)
• Writing and IronPython Debugger: Adding Interactivity (Harry Pierson)
• Gratuitous Use of Linq (Jacob Proffitt)
• On Tagging, Part 1 (Howard Dierking)
• WCF: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority (Josh Twist)
• Recursive LINQ with Y-combinator (Mike Hadlow)

 

Web Development

• Big Day for Sueetie Source and Documentation updates (Dave Burke)
• Adding Search To Your Site (In 5 Minutes) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 10-4: Episode 11: Bi-Directional Routing with ASP.NET WebForms 4.0 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• New ASP.NET MVC Validation Tutorials Posted at www.ASP.net/MVC (Stephen Walther)
• MVC Contrib – Release: RC – 0.0.1.846 (CodePlex)

 

Community / Events

• Foundation Series Workshop 1 – Wednesday, March 11th (Brian Donahue) – A new series of workshops for Philly-area developers. Don’t miss it! – Link of the Day
• Alt.net: Alienation by adoption (Ayende Rahien)
• Are you going to MIX09? (Pete Brown)
• SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 4 – Keynote from SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 4 – Keynote of Steve Ballmer (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint unit testing and SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (Joris Poelmans)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "Windows Live Writer Backup" (Blake Handler)
• Ballmer: Microsoft needs to make faster Windows Mobile advances (Todd Bishop)
• A Journey in Technical Computing (Ade Miller)
• Windows Mobile Finally Gets a Decent Facebook App (John Herrman)
• Live Mesh…the story so far (Steve Clayton)
• Zoho Writer 2.0 launches with fresh look (Raju Vegesna)
• Intro to Programming: Microsoft Small Basic (Paul)
• We need a new slogan (Roy Osherove)
• 10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers (Scott Hanselman)
• Flash / ActionScript Guitar Synthesizer and Andre’s Amazing Lab (Pete.Brown)
• Zune news: New streaming podcasts, new Zune Social functionality (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #300 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: March 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Technical Articles and White Papers on SQL Server (Jose Barreto)
• CloudNews for March 4th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 20 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Links (3/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 299 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day